New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-01-29
DEBATING THE ATTORNEY BILL.
UEDdIINU 1HH
LEGISLATORS AND THE RAILROADS.
SENATOR EpMuNDs WANTS INTERNAL REVENUE
TAXES REPEALED.

SENATOR EDMUNDs WANTS INTERNAL REVENUE
TAXES BEPEALED
w,survcroy Jan 2S.-Mr. Edmunds presented Id
the Senate to-day memorial from manufacturers and
business men In Vermont for repeal OF reduction Oh
Internal Revenue taxes He moved its reference 10
IN, Committee on Finance and said that he wished to
urge on that committee the Importance OF the suoect
of reducing, if not altogether repeating this remnant
of tho unpleasantness of twenty-five years ago. lie
should be glad see the country restored 10 sucn
business conditions had existed before that Time
and 10 have the resources of the Government obtained
entirely from importations and the little incidental
matters of land, etc. Referred to the Committee OIL
Finance. -, ~,
Mr. Cameron presented the credentials of Matthew
Stanley Quay as Senator from PENNSYLVANIA for inc
term beginning March 4, 1887. Placed on file. -,
Mr.. Malone presented numerous petitions IRON VIZ
p1na tobacco manufacturers and dealers for the abo
lition of the tobacco tax. =
The act granting pensions TO dependent parents OF
soldiers etc. having been returned by the House tss
asked Yesterday by Dir. HOar who had moved 10 re-
consider the vote passing it, Mr. Platt stared that tn
motion to reconsider had been made OK ms requos,'
The bull pensoned survivors of the Black Hawk semi
mole and several other Indian vars That he did not
object to but no wished to refer to some STATISTICS
sho wing the amount that the bill was gong 10
and TO compare this with the amount which would be
required for Union soldiers. He would DO that soon.
The Sena'e considered the bill to prohibit members
of Congress from acting attorneys or employees Ior
railroad companies holding charters. or having re-
ceiyed grant of lands pecuniary aid from the Onteu
States Mr. Berry argued that members OF CohSrc''
MUST be not only pure but free from su-pcion
Mr. Teller said that he was prepared to vote aga'n,'
the bill nowit ,standing newspaper olamor He real
lied the tact thst the Senate had ceased u ne poP
lar BODY In the estimation Of the people. lie under,
stood that there was abroad in the country new anu
determined effort to break down the Senate 1t couiG
not be abolished while Delaware and khode ls.a ,
insisted Oh the right given them when the Constlt-
ton was adopted. Without revolution ana the ao-
solute destruction of the Constitution the senate
would continue to exist II was theleore, inc ,i'v
e 60, for character
IL had mani aimed for nearly u hundred years. ne
did not believe that such attacks on the senate ~
were concealed within the bill were caioulated u
strengthen IL with the people /,
Mr.. Wilson. of Maryland, made an argument In
favor of the original bill. 800 -, 60.
Mr. Call argued against tho bill. Unless tho Senate
said that il was so corrupt that 1t cOnd not be trusted
TO expel dsnonorable members. this legislation was
unnecessary. :, -, -
The Senate competent to purge itseii OF every
imnroner influence and law should give that power
outside "a. this bill proposed to do. Freedom from
arrest exce TOR crme absolutely necessary LOT
the independence OF q legislative body. a.. ma,ler
of public Obey this bill was utterly vio!atVe oil Tue
Constitution
members OF Congress being attorneys Tor corpor
a>ions with which Congress had important dern IS'
Did not the Senator (ur. Call think that was right
Mr.. Call agreed entirely M TO that. but aSScu
whether il could not be done 10y rule OF each hOnfe'
instead OF by law. lie declared himself ready TO Vo
for the most stringent rule on the subject Nhnt NJ
objected TO the fundamentally whch TINS DiiI pro
ydrd He movedsto amend the bl by striking out Tue
second section which provides for criminal Iio'ecu-
ton.
Mr. Morgan argued that II there was any good
cronnd Tor the passage tho bill that ground should
Le stated and The senate should have an opportunity
TO expel any Sen tor guilty Of tho offence against
which the bill aimed -, .
Amendments TO :hc bill were offered by Mr.. Plat
and MIR. Ioar. - .
Mr. iIoar said that reasonable man expected t'at
n man who came 10 Congress w"uld abandon all the
lucrative occupa' ions and emp oyments OF life Unless
the National Legislature TO he made mp OF monks,
of men condemned 70 withdraw from all the occupi-
lions aud employment, lie IL impossible TINT
the theory on which the hill rested could be carried
into pr .cice He willing 70 NJ far "a to provide
that when Immigrant raj road company had legs o.
ton before Congress. senator or member who bore
the relation th,t company of counsel should t"He
part in that legislation and that was the pulpoit oil
thr amendment which lac h sd OIL red.
Mr. II a. Withdrew his motion TO reconsider the
vote hv which the Dependent Pprcnts pension bI was
pos-ei Yesterday He explained that no had an oh1cc-
ton 10 the clause about dependent parents but he dd
not wish, bv Offering 0n amendment. 10 imper the
final pia-tge If the III l.
Mr. Forner. of Alabama presented In the Horse The
conference roport tho bill, m1kng an annnhl hT-
propration of 100000 for the equipment OF the
militia forces of the United States aud 1t was agreed
to-
Mr. Adams 81 New YORK. introduced for reference n
oiut resolution authorizing the Acknowledgement "a take
and interest certain dcfauel bonds or i" states of
Akan-ss Florida. Virginia. Tennessee louisiana Worth
Carolina and south Carolina, now held ny tho United
states ~ trustee for certain Indian tribes